Miss Edgeworth's stories became part of their very lives, and Young's "Night Thoughts," and the poems of Cowper and Bloomfield were conspicuous objects on the bookshelves of most houses in those days.

"It isn't," he went on, "it isn't as I mind the inconvenience of moving, sirthough I shall be mighty sorry to leave the old place, still, it isn't that so much as the small corner cup-board, and my bookshelf by the chimley.

He talked to his mother and his sister on the phone, took pictures of Emma in front of the tree, and made another bookshelf for the living room.

He told J.W. to rummage through the one bookshelf in the study which held his small but usable collection of books and pamphlets on the Negro, and see what he might find.

It was so small that he could reach the bookshelves on every side.

I don't know where my old book isgone long since from the nursery bookshelf to the dustbin, I expect, for it was much-used and frail when I knew and loved itbut your word-picture gave me the passport and enabled me to creep once again inside its cover, so brave in blue and gold, and to greet my friend in the red stockings, and find her as highly coloured as ever, and not a day older.

An' the answer, why, he's got it framed an' hung up above his bookshelves between our marriage c'tif'cate an' his diplomy.

In return she let her hand rest a moment lightly on his hair, and then, rather spasmodically, turned to remark on his bookshelves with suspicious energy.